Anonymous Photographer

consisting of one-hundred-and-thirty-three negatives (mainly on glass) and sixty-five prints, including images of the Tsar at the front 1914-17 with his generals, the Tsar's coronation, the Tsarina with her children, and views of Peterhoff, the Kremlin and the hall of the Winter Palace, the prints each with General Voeyikov's stamp on the reverse, contained in boxes bearing annotations in a hand presumed to be his, 

This archive is believed to have been the property of General Vladimir Nikolaevich Voeyikov, who was Palace Commandant of the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo between 1913 and 1917. He was a constant companion of the Tsar and was with him in Mogilev at the time of his abdication on 1st March 1917. This collection is a fascinating portrayal of the General's time spent with the imperial family and in particular the Tsar.

The lot is offered together with a first edition in Russian of With and Without the Tsars, by General Voeyikov (one of only 1,000 printed) which includes reproductions of letters of which there are negatives in the archive.